When I was offered a chance to sit with The Selecter before their Coachella debut on Saturday, their publicist invited me to conduct the interview in their backstage artists area.
In a discrete area left of the main stage, a trio of security guards stood to monitor who was coming and going. If they deemed you worthy — or, in my case, a publicist promised to swiftly kick me back out after my interview — you sneaked through the black gating.
From all the cowboys and cowgirls to performers like Aaron Lewis, The Band Perry, Kenny Rogers, Sheryl Crow, The Del McCoury Band and – very shortly – Brad Paisley, we’ve got over 140 photos from the last day at Stagecoach at mydesert.com.
Sheryl Crow performs on the Mane Stage during Stagecoach California's Country Music Festival at the Empire Polo Fields on Sunday, April 29, 2012 in Indio. (Marilyn Chung/The Desert Sun)
Back at the ranch, I’ve got my eye on the steady stream of photos from Desert Sun and Associated Press photographers covering Coachella.
The AP spotted some British royalty at the Empire Polo Club as this fan watching Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds paid tribute to both Prince William and Queen Elizabeth:
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Desert Sun photogs have also spotted some fun — though decidedly less regal — headgear at the festival today:
 (Richard Lui, The Desert Sun) |
 (Michael Snyder, The Desert Sun) |
• Coachella 2012: Saturday photos of bands, fans and the scene
Today’s installment of “Photos From the Archives” brings us back to the year 2010, and what a year it was…
Jay-Z, Muse, Gorillaz, Thom Yorke, LCD Soundsystem, Pavement, Them Crooked Vultures, and who could forget Sly and the Family Stone. OK, maybe you should forget that “performance” by Sly.
Without further ado, we present Coachella 2010 (in pictures):
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For this edition of our “Photos From the Archives” series we dug through our vault to find the best images we could from the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. While 2009 was most remembered for the performance of Sir Paul McCartney, other bands on the bill that year included The Cure, Morrissey, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Public Enemy, The Black Keys and many, many more…
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This edition of “Photos From the Archives” takes us back to the 2008 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Some still consider this to be the best lineup the festival has ever put together and with artists like Prince, Roger Waters, Kraftwerk, The Raconteurs and My Morning Jacket it’s easy to see why.
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With the lineup being announced and Coachella 2012 on the horizon we’ve opened up the vault, scoured through our archives and dug up some photos from previous years. We’ll keep adding more photos as the fest gets closer, but today’s batch is from 2006. Madonna, Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Kanye West and more.
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